Reconstructing human origins in the genomic era

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 669-680

  Garrigan, Daniel ^a   Hammer, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE;

BOTTLENECK POPULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INHERITANCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NATURAL SELECTION; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLEISTOCENE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RRM2P4 GENE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

AFRICA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 33747457749     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1941     Document Type: Review

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